How much did THE ISABELLA BANK FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of THE ISABELLA BANK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

scoreboard

2019

scoreboardpledged

2020

pledgedchippewa champions

2021

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2022

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2023

scoreboardsscoreboard

2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$50k–250k1 grant · $106k

$11,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY$106,250
MID MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$11,000
MID MICHIGAN MEDICAL HEART AND VASCULAR CENTER$10,000
MONTCALM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.1M · 14 repeat orgs$209k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$209k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%

Still filing today

57%

11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

CM
CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
5× · 2020–2024 · $531k · revenue +212%
MC
MCLAREN CENTRAL MICHIGAN
4× · 2019–2022 · $100k · revenue +68%
AC
ALMA COLLEGE
5× · 2018–2022 · $25k · revenue +0%

Funded once

BC
BRECKENRIDGE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
one grant, 2023 · $18k
BR
BIG RAPIDS HIGH SCHOOL
one grant, 2018 · $18k
BC
BEAL CITY SCHOOLS
one grant, 2018 · $18k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities together by providing excellent health services to improve the quality of life for people in our communities.

Health

The Northern Michigan University

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education

Eastern Michigan University Foundation

Eastern michigan university foundation's primary purpose is to solicit private funds on behalf of and for the exclusive benefit of eastern michigan university, and to expand its resource base through the management of assets and the…

Education

Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover share knowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and develop leadership expressed in service to others.

Education

Mymichigan Medical Center Alpena

Creating healthy communities together by providing excellent health services to improve the quality of life for people in our communities.

Health

Mymichigan Medical Center Alma

Creating healthy communities together by providing excellent health services to improve the quality of life for people in our communities.

Health

Michigan Community Capital

The mission of michigan community capital is to provide low-cost, flexible financial products coupled with advisory services to create and preserve affordable housing and invest in job-creating, community-driven economic development…

Community Improvement

Alumni Association of the University of Michigan

The Association is an independent worldwide organization that nurtures lifelong relationships with and among current and future Michigan alumni. As a committed partner of the University the Association offers programs of relevance and…

Education

Washtenaw Community College

To give hope and support to washtenaw community college students through scholarships and other philanthropic support.

Education

Mymichigan Medical Center Clare

Creating healthy communities together by providing excellent health services to improve the quality of life for people in our communities.

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Mclaren Northern Michigan

Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health

Midwestern University

Midwestern university dedicates the institution and its resources to the highest standards of academic excellence to meet the educational needs of the health care community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montcalm Community College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mymichigan Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/11

Grantees still filing

6/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$576,250Other$563,411Health$110,000Philanthropy$90,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Consumers Energy FoundationMI17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Consumers Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation THE ISABELLA BANK FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 364500805 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Isabella Bank Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Isabella Bank Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE ISABELLA BANK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Isabella Bank Foundation?

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THE ISABELLA BANK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Isabella Bank Foundation?

More from the funding graph